One of the more impressive things about the game visually is how much detail there is - each of the four characters has their own unique artwork and designs for each of the many classes available, and their status screen portraits and field models both change depending upon class.
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The art, too, has been totally redone - instead of Yoshitaka Amano artwork, the game has character designs by Akihiko Yoshida, and so character portraits and in-game character models most closely resemble characters from Final Fantasy Tactics than other main series installments. The results, which are amongst the finest on the DS, are lovely, particularly the detailed towns and dungeons.
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All environments have been upgraded to full 3D, as have battle sequences, and polygonal character models have replaced sprites.
Graphically, Final Fantasy III DS more resembles its PlayStation brethren - particularly VIII and IX, two games with which it’s about technically on par - than it does its old NES counterparts. Much about the game has changed from its original incarnation on the NES, aside from the obvious superficial difference - drastically upgraded graphics. From the moment the player boots up the game and is gripped by a stunning FMV sequence accompanied by a stirring orchestral song, it’s clear that Final Fantasy III DS is no NES game.
Final Fantasy III now holds two distinctions: the last classic Final Fantasy to come to English-speaking languages and the first game in the series to receive a fully comprehensive remake, far more along the lines of remakes like Wild ARMs Alter Code: F than upgraded ports like Final Fantasy IV Advance. Up until now, anyway… though not in its original form. With this absence from American shores, it has long served as the series’ missing link.
It was left out of the glut of anthologies and compilations that came to the US on the original PlayStation, and it never got an Game Boy Advance port along with all the other games from one through six. Many serious fans of the Final Fantasy series have long griped that, despite the multitude of ports and rereleases of the games throughout the series’ long history, there remained one game, the third installment, which had never seen release in the United States.
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